Daily Thoughts
 

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Ken Keyes, Jr. (1921-1995)
Writer

"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."
- Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

This is very appropriate....

"Every end is a new beginning"

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."

-George Bernard Shaw


I've always liked that one.

"So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America."

- Thomas Wolfe

Life is fair.


It just you that's being selfish.


World's King

Rain, hail, snow, and ice:
All are different,
But when they fall
They become the same water
As the valley stream.

- Ikkyu (1394-1481)

All in all it's all, just another brick in the wall.

Pink Floyd

INDIFFERENCE.
It Takes 43 muscles to Frown and 17 to Smile, But It Doesn't Take Any To Just Sit There With A Dumb Look On Your Face.

MEDIOCRITY.
It Takes a Lot Less Time and Most People Won't Notice the Difference Until It's Too Late.

PROCRASTINATION.
Hard Work Often Pays Off After Time, but Laziness Always Pays Off Now.

CLUELESSNESS.
There Are No Stupid Questions, But There Are A Lot Of Inquisitive Idiots.

Life would be alot easier with an owner's manual.

-me

communicate and ask questions, observe and make a decision you can live with.
And if all else false, guess.

Before the beginning of great brilliance,
there must be chaos.
Before a brilliant person begins something great,
they must look foolish in the crowd.

- From the I Ching

If at first you dont succeed destroy any evidence that you tried.

Everything can be taken from a man but . . . the last of human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997)
Psychiatrist and Auschwitz survivor

Remember the a la mode.

Imagination is more important than knowledge

- Einstein

listen to all, even the dull and stupid. For they too, have stories to tell.

I might actually begin to put up something of substance, once I get my avatar back, and focus again.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else.

Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"

my old favorite...

there is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action...

- johann wolfgang von goethe

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Writer

It's very hard to achieve greatness if you don't wear pants all the time...

Trust me on this.

Shit Happens

Forrest Gump

Inside every Goth there is a normal person dying to kick their ass. - SypH

cogito ergo sum...

- rene descartes

The battle against abject stupidity cannot be fought with reason.
-me

“If I don’t know I know then I think I don’t know but, if I don’t know I don’t know then I think I know.”
-R. D. Laing

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.”
-Robert Frost


“Mandrake make me a drink of grain alcohol and rainwater.”
-General Jack Ripper (Dr. Strangelove)

Watch out where the huskies go, and do you eat that yellow snow. Zappa- The Nanook Suite, 1974

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.

Dutch proverb

I am not what I used to be.


I'm far better.

"Rise early, work late, strike oil"



J. Paul Getty

Don't be something that you can't.

Everything that every individual has ever done in all of human history and prehistory establishes the minimum boundary of the possible. The maximum, if any, is completely unknown - John Tooby and Leda Cosmides

Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.

Basho

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. --G. K. Chesterton

Words are like bullets; if they escape, you can't catch them again.

African proverb

In the battle between the rock and the river, the river will always win. Not through brute strength, but through persistence.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957)
Philosopher and writer

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

Bernadette Devlin
Political activist and member of Parliament

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
Poet

On the verge of change things seem to get worse because we finally see our errors clearly. When we feel stuck, going nowhere - even starting to slip backwards, we may be backing up to get a running start.

When going through hell keep going

au pays des aveugles les borgnes sont rois...

(on poker)

"if you can't spot the sucker in 30 minutes, you are the sucker"

Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. .The world changes for the better with every act of kindness, and for the worse with every act of cruelty.

Bo Lozoff
Cofounder of the Human Kindness Foundation

"the worst will happen....... Always" ~ an old friend

abeunt studia in mores...

Keep your heart clear and transparent
And you will never be bound.
A single disturbed thought, though,
Creates ten thousand distractions.
Let myriad things captivate you
And you'll go further and further astray.
How painful to see people
All wrapped up in themselves.

- Ryokan

There is no way to Happiness. Happiness is the way

Unknown

Uncle Phil, since you speak french, what does this mean?

Je suis un chien mais je ne suis pas un chien

i may be a dog, but i ain't ugly...(i am a dog, as in animal, but i am not a dog, as in ugly...)

"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

ars longa, vita brevis...

Uncle Phil, actually, " je suis un chien" is ( 'suis' from verbe 'suivre' means 'to follow'). A lot of French people it messed up too.

I follow a dog but I am not a dog

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Woodberry

You must just acknowledge deep in your heart of hearts that people are supposed to fuck. It is our main purpose in life, all those other activities--playing the trumpet, vacumming carpets, reading mystery novels, eating chocolate mousse--are just ways of passing time until you can fuck again.
-Cynthia Heimel, Sex Tips For Girls

Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection.

-Anonymous

The penis mightier than the sword.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

-Mark Twain

I would sooner have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy- Tom Waits

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)

Pain is just fear leaving the body.

If you dust off old junk sometimes you come up with a gem.

Bill Veeck (1914-1986)
Baseball team owner

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
~ Confucius

bis dat qui cito dat...

kimmytr - je suis is first person singular for both verbs...

Uncle Phil - Exactly, je suis (I follow)
je suis (i am)

It all began with Adam. He was the first man to tell a joke--or a lie. How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before. Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.
-Mark Twain

NEVER tease a pregnant armidillo

My life has been the poem I would have writ, but I could not both live and utter it.

Henry David Thoreau

I'm not afraid to die I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

cedant arma togae...

If you always follow the lead dog, your only view is ass
.... or something like that. You get the idea.

-A poster on my old English teacher's wall

Life itself is the proper binge.

Julia Child
Chef

cogito, ergo sum...


- rene descartes

Spring has its hundred flowers,
Autumn its many moons.
Summer has cool winds,
Winter its snow.
If useless thoughts do not
Cloud your mind,
Each day is the best of your life.

- Wu-Men-Hui-Kai (1183-1260)

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

~Irv Kupcinet

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

~unknown

Eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind

-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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The quest is to be liberated from the negative, which is really our own will to nothingness. And, once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is contagious. It bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit. To say yes to one instant, is to say yes to all of existence.

-Waking Life

In three words I can sum up
everything I learned about life.
It goes on.

Robert Frost

"If you always do what you always did, then you'll always get what you always got. So if nothing ever changes, nothing ever will change."

Dunno who said it, but I'd say it's damn good advice.

I hope this thread keeps going. Very insightful words to be found here.

Some more:

Man wants chaos. In fact, he's gotta have it: depression, strife, riots, murder, all this dread. We're irresistably drawn to that almost orgiastic state created out of death and destruction. It's in all of us; We revel in it.


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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

Jane Wyman
Actor

ARTelevision , that was beautiful

My favourite is by Edgar Allan Poe , im not very sure how it goes exactly in English (not my 1st language) , but anyway :

Everything is just a dream within a dream

"At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts."

George Orwell

Impermanence, aging, and illness
Do not give people a set time.
One may be alive in the morning,
Then dead at night,
Changing worlds in an instant.
We are like the spring frost,
Like the morning dew
Suddenly gone.

- Kuei-Shan (771-854)

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

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Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their numbers.

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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Aldous Huxley

You see things and say "Why?"
But I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"

~ George Bernard Shaw

Wine is sunlight, held together by water. (Galileo)

I actually like to collect quotes when I come across interesting ones that I see. In fact, I collected a lot from this thread alone. Here are some of my other favourites (note, if I say Anonymous, it's only because I couldn't find the source of the quote). I saved all these for much later in the thread so I could give everyone else an opportunity to say their quotes before I dumped all of mine:

<I>“Experience is a hard teacher. First you get the test, and then you get the lesson.”</I>
- Brian D. Krueger

<I>“You have to stand for something, or else you will fall for anything.”</I>
- Anonymous

<I>“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.”</I>
- Anonymous

<I>“It's true that you don’t know what you have until it's gone, but you also don't know what you’ve been missing until it arrives.”</I>
- Anonymous

<I>"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."</I>
- H. Jackson Brown

<I>“Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something.”</I>
- Plato

<I>"Death makes you popular. People who didn't even like you in life would come and say you were a nice guy. And flowers! You'll get more flowers than you ever got in your lifetime! Too bad it’s too late."</I>
- George Carlin

<I>“I finally found Jesus. He was behind the sofa the whole time.” </I>
- Dick Fitzwell (Fark.com)

<I>“Democracy is a dangerous thing when in the hands of stupid people.”</I>
- Anonymous

<I>"A witty saying proves nothing"</I>
- Voltaire

<I>"Clothes may make the man, but they don't make the man work."</I>
- Solid_Snake (Fark.com)

<I>“In the game of global thermonuclear war, the only way to win is to not play at all.”</I>
- Anonymous

<I>“The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”</I>
- Anonymous

<I>“Some people are born victims, others go out of their way to become one”</I>
- Impaler (Fark.com)

<I>"Nothing has been said about politics that hasn't already been said about hemorrhoids."</I>
- Anonymous

<I>"A fanatic is someone who won't change his mind and won't change the subject."</I>
- Winston Churchill

<I>“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”</I>
- Anonymous

<I>"France is for the french. Or anyone else passing by with an army.” </I>
- Dorf1 (Fark.com)

If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)

A strong positive attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Patricia Neal
Actor

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible. ~ Jonathan Swift

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
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Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion -- human religion -- but any number of faiths.
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No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
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True nonviolence should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all .
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Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

When love comes it comes without effort, like perfect weather.

Helen Yglesias
Writer

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes....there is too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Henry Kissinger

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Albert Camus

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Lauren Bacall
Actor

Yesterday's mistake is tomorrow's wisdom

Merry Browne